U.S. antitrust enforcer advancing probe into Amazon's cloud unit -Bloomberg News

FILE PHOTO: Signage is seen at the Federal Trade Commission headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 29, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

(Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is advancing an antitrust probe into Amazon.com Inc's cloud computing business, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

FTC officials have contacted companies in the past few months to gather information about competition issues related to Amazon Web Services (AWS), according to the report which cited unnamed people familiar with the matter.